Meeko, I wish you’d post more. I’ve read and heard so many games involving you that it seems a real shame not to get my chance to play with a veritable celebrity. You and that chap peeker have made many an archived game interesting to read, in… many ways… and I hoped to be able to see you strut your stuff “live,” so to speak. 
And on edit, I take it back. Feel free to stay silent!! Yeesh. Is it Thursday yet please?
Normally yes, but from what I’ve seen, when a wagon forms against someone for bizarre reasons such as these (IMHO), which feel like scum doing their level best to railroad you, or town just being dumb and paranoid, you can either a) argue and win maybe one or two people over at best, live to fight on and on and on and on and on as the same determined Scum try to foment dissent and distraction using you as their tool, or b) just stand in front of it and get it over with so you no longer waste Town’s time through subsequent (and more vital) rounds.
I saw pizza get the same treatment (and I was guilty of being distracted by it too), and at least it was on the first day where a mislynch isn’t so bad. 2nd Day mislynch isn’t horrible either, but dragging this out and wasting Town’s investigating skills on me is just pointless.
I may have learned very very little in my brief Mafia experience, but I do remember the first thing anyone taught me: any individual’s death isn’t a loss for Town, nor is a Townie’s death a loss for that Townie. I win if my fellow Townies win. And I do like winning. So if getting me out of the way so the good guys can focus elsewhere–including on the people who are most determined to distract you by twisting everything I’m saying like a pretzel (or went after me like a bull out of a gate on Day 1, ahem)–then I’m okay with that.
I’m not trying to be a martyr here. Truth is, it’s not fun to have everything, from silly punctuation jokes to genuine attempts to get things that I saw as inconsistencies clarified to self-admission of my weaknesses as a player edited to add: to my not particularly original mention of a well-known poet, turned against me. I’m neither seen as an asset to Town, nor do I think I really am. But perhaps my absence might be.
If nothing else, as I said, it’ll give Town more information, especially in the form of asking “cui bono?” when it comes to those who pushed me to this point.
Even I know that there are a few things wrong with that last paragraph! The first sentence is true (in hindsight… or not, depending on if you’re Town or Scum). The second sentence is absolutely not provable at this point. And that being so, the third sentence is basically not applicable.
Speaking for myself, I’m not voting you because of your own votes. I’m voting because of others’ votes. I think there’s a non-zero possibility that pizza may have been railroaded partly to save you.
Honestly I’m voting you not so much to see you swing, but to see how others react.
You sound like me. If you’re truly Town, Scum doesn’t know you’re vanilla.
But needless to say, I hear you on vendettas. :dubious:
I’ll have to read the posts from Yesterday again some time, but I don’t think one or two posts count as a vendetta, and I don’t remember all that many more from TexCat concerning you.
